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Summit Materials, a leading vertically integrated construction materials company, announces Continental Cement Company, LLC ("Continental Cement"), a subsidiary of Summit, produced a 20 % Portland Limestone Cement (“PLC”), the lowest carbon Portland Limestone Cement to date as part of an innovative research project for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and the National Road Research Alliance project.
Region: USA
17.10.2022 13:47Golden Bay Cement launches EcoSure
Golden Bay Cement consumes three million waste tyres as part of developing EcoSure®, New Zealand’s lowest carbon GP cement.
Digitalizing its business for impact, Holcim is expanding its proprietary digital customer platform, ConcreteDirect, from North America to Europe and Latin America. This expansion of this comprehensive digital platform for construction job site professionals offers a seamless customer experience from France, Germany and the UK, all the way to Colombia, Ecuador and El Salvador.
Region: Global
08.09.2022 13:49CEMEX provides cement for longest bridge in the Philippines
CEMEX announced that it was the sole supplier of cement for the construction of the longest bridge in the Philippines. CEMEX supplied nearly 70,000 metric tons of cement for the construction of the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (“CCLEX”), a milestone project for the country.
Region: Philippines
HeidelbergCement is further expanding its portfolio of large-scale CCUS projects with a new initiative in the United States. The project at the Mitchell, Indiana, cement plant of HeidelbergCement’s US subsidiary Lehigh Hanson, Inc. aims to capture 95% of the CO2 emissions from the newly renovated production facility and store them in a local onshore reservoir in the Illinois Basin.
Region: USA
01.09.2022 14:04TCC is Taiwan’s First Large-size Manufacturer to Join EP100
Taiwan Cement Corp. (TCC) announced on becoming a member of Climate Group’s EP100 initiative. TCC is the first large-size manufacturing company in Taiwan and the fourth cement company in the world to pass the verification to become a member of EP100. TCC’s commitment includes adopting ISO 50001 Energy Management system and set the target to increase energy efficiency by 50% in 2040 compared to the base year of 2016.
31.08.2022 16:49Lehigh Hanson Receives U.S. Doe Funding for Feed Study of Carbon Capture Project at Its New Lehigh Cement Plant in Mitchell, Indiana
Lehigh Hanson, Inc. is pleased to announce it has received approximately $3.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) to conduct a front-end engineering design (FEED) study retrofitting Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA’s) carbon capture technology at its new state-of-the-art cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana.
Region: USA